Past Events
National Family and Life Week 2025
Tuesday, April 08 2025
8 April 2025, Ottawa - The Catholic faithful across Canada are invited and warmly encouraged to celebrate National Family and Life Week 2025 (NFLW) from Sunday, 11 May, 2025, to Sunday, 18 May, 2025. This annual event is an initiative of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, in collaboration with its Standing Committee for Family and Life, and the corresponding Office. In the context of…
Bishops raise serious concerns about threats to charitable status designation
Monday, March 10 2025
On Monday, 10 March 2025, the members of the Permanent Council of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) expressed their grave concern regarding two recommendations made by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance within Report 21: Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the 2025 Budget. These recommendations (#429 and #430), if adopted, would be profoundly detrimental to Canada’s charitable sector, because they would:…
Message from the Holy See to Mark the Celebration of Ramadan 2025
Friday, February 28 2025
28 February 2025, Ottawa - To mark the month of Ramadan, which this year begins on Friday, 28 February or Saturday, 1 March—subject to the sighting of the moon—and shall end with the Eid Al-Fitr on 30/31 March, the Holy See’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue has recently published a message entitled “Christians and Muslims: What we hope to become together.” George Jacob Cardinal Koovakad and…
Episcopal Resignation and Appointment for the Archdiocese of Vancouver
Tuesday, February 25 2025
OTTAWA, 25 February 2025 – Today, His Holiness Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the Most Reverend J. Michael Miller, C.S.B., as Archbishop of Vancouver, and appointed the Most Reverend Richard Smith, presently Archbishop of Edmonton, as his successor. Born on 28 April 1959, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Archbishop Richard Smith was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Halifax on 23 May 1987.…